Chuck Hollis makes some excellent points about Green Data Center Goes Marketing Mainstream . He does a great job summarizing EMC's strategy in this area: Use VMware to virtualize your x86-based servers Use more efficient disk media, such as high-capacity SATA...

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, yesterday was this year's Winter Solstice , representingthe shortest amount of daylight between sunrise and sunset. So today, I thought I would blog on my thoughtsof managing scarcity. Earlier in my career, I had...

Wow! I've only had this blog since Sep. 1, and already it is listed in the Data Storage Bloggers wiki list. In last week's System Storage Portfolio Top Gun class in Dallas, some of the students were not familiarwith Really Simple Syndication (RSS). For the...

Continuing this week's theme on Cloud Computing, Dynamic Infrastructure and Data Center Networking, IBM unveiled details of an advanced computing system that will be able to compete with humans on Jeopardy! , America’s favorite quiz television show....

Wrapping up this week's theme on why the System z10 EC mainframe can replace so many older, smaller,underutilized x86 boxes.This was all started to help fellow bloggers Jon Toigo of DrunkenData and Jeff Savit from Sun Microsystems understand our IBM press...

It's Thursday here at the [ Data Center Conference ] here in Las Vegas. Trying to keep up with all the sessions and activities has been quite challenging. As is often the case, there are more sessions that I want to attend than I physically am able to, so...

I have arrived safely in Las Vegas for the IBM System Storage and Storage Networking Symposium. This eventis held once every year. The gold sponsors were: Brocade, Cisco, Finisar, Servergraph, and VMware. Our silversponsor was Qlogic. Barry Rudolph was the...

This week's theme is alternative sourcing through Cloud Computing. I thoughtI would start off the week interviewing an owner at a Small or Medium-sized Business [ SMB ] that recently adopted this approach. Meet Fred, one of the new co-owners of my singles...

Continuing my blog coverage of the [ Forrester IT Forum 2009 conference ],I will group a bunch of topics related to Cloud Computing into one post. Cloud Computing was a big topichere at the IT Forum, and probably was also in the other two conferences IBM...

Wrapping up this week's theme on ways to make the planet smarter, and less confusing, I present IBM's third annual [ five in five ]. These are five IBM innovations to watch over the next five years, all of which have implications on information storage. Here...

People are confused over various orders of magnitude. News of the economic meltdownoften blurs the distinction between millions (10^ 6 ), billions (10^ 9 ), and trillions (10^ 12 ).To show how different these three numbers are, consider the following: A...

Last month, we highlighted a demo from IBM software engineer Simon Stebbins on how to integrate reverse-proxy WebSEAL (found in the IBM Security Access Manager solution) with the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP . Now developerWorks has provided a wrapper...

The "Storage Symposium Mexico - 2008" conference was a great success this week! Day 1 - The plan was for me to arrive for the Wednesday night reception. Each attendee was given a copy of my latest book[ Inside System Storage: Volume I ] and I was...